Political ideologies

movement started in Madison, Wisconsin with a small group of friends who were not your usual left-leaning activist. They challenged the status quo. The group eventually grew into a movement which spread to many law schools and transcended into the ideology on many. The central theme to the Critical Legal Studies was the opposite of the average liberal lawyer. The belief was the law should be carefully interpreted and the rhetoric of the law should be taken very seriously. Legal discourse as…

Where cosmopolitanism in all its various forms and delineations can generally come to be seen as the universalisation of culture and identity, the rejection of nationalist principles, and the prioritisation of equality in all domains of life; cultural relativism emphasises that the values of any given culture are regarded as important to the citizens who identify with that culture (Herskovits 1972;8). Herskovits explains that the central philosophical tenet of cultural relativism is a…

Political polarization has always been a deeply rooted reality of American politics but it traces further back than the United States itself. Darwin proposed that morality was an adaption which evolved by natural selection both at an individual level and a group level. Morality or a strong commitment to virtue helped group cohesion and lead tribes with more virtuous members to take over other tribes which did not. In his book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt argues that group selection shaped…

president’s scandal. After facing a few difficulties, the team was driven towards creating a second and third lie for the public to believe. Similarly to the Wag the Dog’s political theme, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu also contain governmental characteristics. However, while The Prince discusses political issues, the author of Tao Te…

The political language of "left" or "right" is something that is distant to me as I consider myself not that well-versed in the political realm. However, because of my nature I often agree or disagree with some policies based on my personal thoughts. One of the greatest philosopher, Aristotle, famously points out that human beings are "political animals", meaning we are social creature with reasoning. In a sense by our nature, we as individual participate in a manner in which a society is form.…

Plato 's case which favours philosophers creating the ideal polis, the Kallipolis, which is dependent on philosophers ruling with political power; knowledge and love of wisdom being key for this ideal polis. The case, presented in “the Republic” which is Plato’s most fascinating and most significant pieces, works in the development of philosophy. Socrates is at the center of this narration and for this reason is described as, “merely, the mouthpiece of his own opinion.” The case is subject to…

belonging to a political body within a nation state and being protected by that state in the form of having your rights protected and upheld. Minorities were targeted during the second world war and were displaced from their homes as a…

Civil War South we are able to gain an insight on how the ideologies that the confederacy were based on contributed to its downfall. These slaveholders might have created a powerful empire but they did not realize that they had excluded most of their population of white-women and slaves. The confederacy tried to succeed and they failed and what we see from Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in The Civil War South is that in this political battle women and slaves played a huge role in the…

it is the other way around: Human rights created the United States.” Stated by Jimmy Carter, this quote delineates the manner in which the citizens of the United States enjoy an abundance of rights. The foundation of these rights emerged from the ideologies of the Founders, which in turn were tremendously influenced by numerous occurrences in the world’s history, including the advancements of the Age of Enlightenment. Accordingly, how and why did the ideas established in this epoch influence the…

was the idea of classical liberalism which was all over Europe and moved into the new world. Classical liberalism is the political philosophy which focuses on civil liberties such as freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and markets. Classical liberalism…